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The long-awaited and long-worked on 5.1 channel remixed version of The Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin will finally be available at the end of January. In case you're not familiar with this album, this multi-channel remix is actually helping this record get back to its roots. The original concept of The Soft Bulletin was to try to make a more accessible (i.e. only one CD playing at a time) version of what the band had done with Zaireeka. In my opinion, this is exactly the album that needs to be released in a multi-channel format. They've already proven that they can do great surround mixes with the wonderfully cacophonous Zaireeka and their latest release, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots.
According to the tracklisting, it looks like they chose the UK version of album for this re-release. Strangely, there were two different versions of this album released with slightly different running orders and one or two songs on each that wasn't on the other. I never found a good explanation why this was done and I have never seen this happen with other albums. Sure, labels will slap a "bonus track" on the end of an album when it's released here so that everybody who already bought the British import will go out and pick it up again (riiiiight), but different songs and sequensing...I'm stumped. Fortunately, we don't lose any of the songs since "The Spiderbite Song" and "Buggin'" are tacked on to the end of the tracklisting. In case you're completely lost by now, I'll just paste the damn tracklistings for the two versions below (each with appropriate remixes after the album's real last track, "Sleeping On the Roof").
US Version
01. Race for the Prize (Mokran mix)
02. A Spoonful Weighs A Ton
03. The Spark That Bled
04. The Spiderbite Song
05. Buggin'
06. What Is The Light?
07. The Observer
08. Waitin' For Superman
09. Suddenly Everything Has Changed
10. The Gash
11. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
12. Sleeping on the Roof
13. Race for the Prize
14. Superman (Mokran mix)
UK Version
01. Race for the Prize
02. A Spoonful Weighs A Ton
03. The Spark That Bled
04. Slow Motion
05. What Is The Light?
06. The Observer
07. Waitin' for a Superman
08. Suddenly Everything Has Changed
09. The Gash
10. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate Listen
11. Sleeping on the Roof
12. Race for the Prize (Mokran mix)
13. Superman (Mokran mix)
14. Buggin'
Thanks to Chromewaves and FL Official site for the info.
Jerad posted this in Music | Comments (0)
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